Bar-fixture with soda-water-dispensing apparatus provided with syrup-cans.



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BAR FIXTURE WITH SODA WATER DISPENSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH I SYRUP CANS.

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No. 69l,386. Patented Ian. 2|, I902.

' .I. C. JOHNSON.

BAR FIXTURE WITH SODA WATER DISPENSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SYRUP CANS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. JOHNSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BAR-FIXTURE WITH SODA-WATER-DISPENSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SYRUP-CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,386, dated January 2 1, 1902. Application filed October 25,1901. Serial No. 79,907. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN 0.1T OHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invent ed certain new and useful Improvements in Bar-Fixtures with Soda -Water-Dispensing Apparatus Provided with Syrup Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the provision of saloon bar-fixtures with soda-water-dispensing apparatus provided with syrup-cans, which are adapted to be arranged flush with or to project beyond the plane or front of the bar-fixture, and to means in the bar-fixture for maintaining the syrup-cans and soda-water-dispensing apparatus in a cold or cool condition; and in such connection it relates, among other features, to the construction and arrangement of the apparatus and its accessories for the said purposes.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational viewpf a combined bar-fixture with a bracket extension to the left thereof with a soda-water-dispensing apparatus and syrup-cans mounted therein and cooled from the ice-chest in the interior of said fixture embodying main features of mypresentinvention. Fig.2isaview, partly in top or plan and broken section, of the said invention and also showing the interior or ice-chest of the bar-fixture with the sodawater coil incased in the ice of the chest for cooling the coil, and thereby the soda-water or the like contained therein. Fig. 3 is a View, partly in side elevation and partly in transverse section, showing a syrup can mounted in a bracket extension of the bariixture and projecting beyond the face of said bar-fixture. Fig. 4 is a central transverse sectional view of the bar-fixture housing or bracket with a syrup-can mounted therein and arranged flush with the face of said housing or bracket and with the latter cut away at the bottom, so that the draw-off cock of the can can occupya position beneath the can in the bracket or housing. rational view of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view,

Fig. 5 is a front ele-,

partly in plan and partly in section, of the syrup-cans in position within the housing or bracket of the bar-fixture and also showing the manner of cooling and maintaining in such conditionthe cans in the housing or bracket and also showing the recessed bottom with the opening for engaging a lock-pin or spur of each can therein. Fig. 7 is a side elevational view in broken section of one of the cans, showing the manner of detachably locking the can in the housing or bracket of the bar-fixture; and Fig. 8 is an underneath plan view of a can of the type illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 6, and 7, with its lock-pin or spur in the bottom thereof.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a saloon-bar or other fixture, having projecting therefrom ordinary draw-off cocks at.

o represents endglass drip receptacles or trays.

1) represents box-like or other shaped bracket extensions of the bar-fixture A, which in the bottom or inner side wall are cut away, as at b, for providing an opening to the interior or ice-chest b of the bar-fixture A, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 6, for permitting cold air to pass into and circulate in and about the space provided by the brackets 11, for a pur pose to be presently fully explained. The interior of the bracket extension 6, which may be located at either the right or left hand end of the fixture, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2,'and 5, is preferably lined with sheet metal or other suitable material, and with a roof b having a hinged extension 1), extending beyond the plane of the bar-fixture and bracket to form a hinged lid for the cans c, inserted in the bracket extension I) and projecting beyond the face of the fixture, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings. In the bottom of the casing or lining of each, bracket, near the front,is formed an inverted-U-sha-ped recess N, as illustrated in Fig. 6, and in 'rear thereof, in the bottom, is provided an opening 0 for engaging the spur or lock-pin c of the can to securely hold said can in the bracket extension against disengagement while drawing off the contents of the can, yet permitting of the disengagement of the pin from its opening by simply raising or tilting slightly the front of the can in withdrawing the same. In the top of each can is provided an opening 0 for filling the same. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings the front of the can, projecting beyond the face of the bracket 1) and the plane of the fixture A, has a rounded face with a draw-01f cock and in the bottom is provided a cylindriform pocket 0 adapted to receive a regulated or measured quantity of syrup or liquid from the can 0', so as to permitof the discharge of the same, upon the actuation of the draw-0ft cock a into a suitable receptacle for use.

d is a soda-water-dispensing apparatus located alongside of a can or cans a, mounted in the bracket extension I) and connected by piping with a source of supply contained within the ice-chest b of the bar-fixture A, and which piping, formed preferably into a coil within the ice-chest, from the soda-water-d ispensing apparatus extends through the opening Z), leading from the ice-chest, to the bracket extension I), and through which opening b the cold air passes to the series of cans mounted in the extension I) of the bar-fixture A for maintaining the same in a cool condi tion by the circulation of the cooled air from the ice in the chest b around and about the cans in the extension I), as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. By having the cans project beyond the plane of the bracket extension b they can be filled Without disturbing them in their locked position in said extension by simply raising the lid 5 of the roof of the casing of the bracket extension I).

In Figs. at and 5 the bracket extension I) in the bottom of the bar-fixture A is cut away at b, so that when the series of cans c are slid into the housing within the extension 17 the front of each can, which is flat instead of half round, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, will be flush with the plane of the bar-fixture A and also of the bracket extension I), and the drawofi cock 0 will be located in the cut-away portion of the bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 4, to permit of the ready withdrawal of the syrup or other fluid from the series of cans as desired. The cans in either form and in their position in the bracket extension I) are horizontally withdrawn from the same by simply releasing the lock-pin or spur c of each can 0 from the opening a engaging the same in position in the bracket extension b of the bar-fixture A.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a bar-fixture provided with a cooling-chamber or ice-chest, of a bracket extension connected with said fixture and having an opening leading to said liquid from said can as required, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with a bar-fixture provided with a cooling-chamber 0r ice-chest, of a bracket extension connected therewith and having means connected with said coolingchamber or ice-chest for cooling the interior of said bracket extension, a series of cans detachably secured in said bracket extension and adapted to be horizontally withdrawn therefrom, said cans projecting beyond the plane of said fixture and faceof said bracket extension, means for permitting of the filling of the series of cans without separate removal thereof, and means for permitting of a regulated or measured quantity of syrup or other liquid from said cans being independently withdrawn as required, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. The combination, with a bar-fixture provided with a cooling-chamber or ice-chest, of a bracket extension connected therewith and having means leading from said cooling chamber or chest to the interior of said bracket extension for cooling the interior of the same, acan adapted to be mounted in said bracket extension and to be horizontally withdrawn therefrom, a recess formed in the bottom of said bracket extension with an opening in proximity thereto, and said can provided with a lock-pin or spur adapted to engage said opening, and means for withdrawing in regulated or measured quantity the syrup or other liquid from said can, as required, substantially as and for the purposes described.

4. The combination, with a bar-fixture provided witha cooling-chamber or ice-chest, of a bracket extension connected therewith and having an opening leading to said chamber or chest for cooling the interior thereof, a can adapted to be mounted in said bracket extension and projecting beyond the plane of said fixture and face of said bracket extension and to be horizontally withdrawn therefrom, means for permitting of the filling of said can without removal thereof, and means for permitting of a regulated discharge of the contents of the can, as required, substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. The combination, with a bar-fixture provided with a cooling-chamber or ice-chest, of a bracket extension connected therewith and having an opening leading to said chamber or chest for cooling the interior thereof, a series of cans mounted in said bracket exten* sion and adapted to be horizontally withdrawn threfromnneans for permitting of the filling of said cans without necessarily remov ing the same, means for permitting of a regulated discharge of the contents of the can independently, as required, and a soda-water dispensing apparatus located also in said bracket extension and connected witha source of supply in the cooling-chamber of said fixture substantially as and for the purposes described.

6. The combination, with a bar-fixture pro required, and a soda-water-dispensing appa- 1 ratuslocated alongside said can in said bracket extension and connected with a source of supply in the interior of said fixture, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my signature in the presence'of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN C. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

